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THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN. By Severance Johnson. Kings! Emperors! Are you all deaf and dumb ? Will you not listen to the cry of peace? Until too late to save your tottering thrones? Pan vmi nnt rpnrl flip writ.incr nn t.ht> wall? Do you not know your hour of doom has come? You piled up war on war without surcease. You filled your yands with blood and graves and bones; And you must reap the whirlwind of it all. The people will arise. At last they’ll see You are the cause of all their misery. They’ll hurl you headlong from your palace bowers, They’ll tear your bastiles down and set men free. Fair Liberty will vanish Tyranny; And Right, not Might, will wield your ancient ppwers. Then will be born the Brotherhood of Man, That will transcend the boundaries of race, Enfold all lands beneath its peaceful sway, Include all creeds within its kindly span. A world’s United States will take the place Of all the battling, bleeding nations of today. RED CROSS ENTERTAINMENT COMUS THEATRE, WEDNESDAY EVENING JULY 4th, 1917. LIVING PICTURES. Tableau I.—“Red Cross Nurse”.Miss Julia Miller Long Solo, “The Star Spangled Banner”.Mrs. J. W. Waddy Tableau II.—“Columbia and Uncle Sam Greeting the Allies” . .Miss Kathleen Bonner, Messrs. J. W. Hawks, G. W. Chapman, A. E. Berkley. Tableau III.—“The Soldier’s Farewell” . Miss Edith Robins, Mr. Van Kincannon, Jr. Tableau IV.—“Ben Bolt” . Mrs. Walter Ballard, Miss Ethel Hindsman. Tableau V.—“Sweet and Low” .... Mrs. Geo. Maynard and quartette, Miss Ola Gardner, Mrs. Walter Ballard, Messrs. N. B. Buchanan and Albert Bowen. Tableau VI.—“The Rosarv”.Miss Janie Troy, Miss Linda Berry Tableau VII.—“Drink to Me With Thine Eyes”_Miss Margaret Joyner, Miss May Bowen. Tableau VIII.—“Juanita”.Mrs. N. B. Buchanan, Miss Linda Berry Tableau IX_“From Land of Sky Blue Water” .... Mrs. Phillip Nanny, Mrs. J. W. Waddy. Reading . Miss Georgia Weaver. Tableau X.—“Mother McCree” .... Mrs. G. M. Crook, Mr. Clay McGaughy. Tableau XI.—“Annie Laurie”.Miss Mary Haughton McGaughy, Miss Hoyt Raymond. Tableau XII.—“The Girl I Left Behind Me” Mr. and Mrs. Wilder Trice, Jr. Tableau XIII.—“Coming Through the Rye” . Miss Janie Troy, Mr. John Hunter, Mrs. J. W. Waddy. Chorus—“Tenting on the Old Camp Ground. ADMISSION 25 and 15 CENTS. Second Crop Irish Potatoes. BY H. M. COTTRELL, Agriculturist of Memphis Chamber of Commerce Farm Bureau. There should be an acre of Irish potatoes planted in July on every small farm in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. Large farms should plant one acre in Irish potatoes for each 30 acres in cultivation. The crop will be needed at home to take the place of flour and meal. Good seed and a moist, fine soil at planting time are essential to the production of profitable yields. Seed—There is no seed in cold storage. Most of the plant ing will have to be made from seed saved from the spring plant ed crop. Small potatoes planted whole take 24 bushels an acre'? When seed is cut 12 to 14 bushels will plant an acre. Most growers will get enough higher yields from whole seed to make it advisable to use it. Saving Seed From First Crop—Dig the first crop when the vines become golden and before they begin to die. Dig late in the day or on a cloudy day. Pick up the potatoes as fast as dug so that direct sunlight will not strike them. Select potatoes the size of a hen’s egg or smaller for seed. Put the seed pota toes the first night where they will become well cooled. The next morning spread them out in a layer six inches deep on a cool, dry surface, where they will not be exposed to direct sun light and where the ventilation is good. If they can be stored where a breeze will blow over them it will help. A well venti lated loft or gangway are good places. Some of the largest growers clear the ground under low spreading trees and spread the pototoes on the cleared places. The potatoes should be barely covered with clean, dry soil, free from grass or trash, or lightly with straw or similar material. Where potatoes are spread on the ground they must be thoroughly protected with ditches, as no water should run over them. Keep the potatoes dry the first two weeks of curing. Keep the covering moist the last two weeks to hasten sprouting. It requires about 30 days of this treatment to cure potatoes for Dlanting. In many towns are small cold storage nlants and fresh dug potatoes may be put in cold storage 30 days to cujre them for planting. Preparing the Ground—Begin to prepare the ground in June. Disk or cultivate the land until the top three inches are fine. Plow deep and harrow at once. Work the ground every week until planting time. There should not be even small clods and the soil should be in good condition of moisture or it is a waste to plant. Planting—Plant on a cloudy day so that neither the fur row or the seed will become dry. Thoroughly disk or culti vate the land before planting it. Make each row by opening a furrow six inches deep. Drop the seed in moist soil and cover immediately to a depth of three inches. Make the rows three feet apart and drop seed six to 10 inches apart in the row. Where fertilizer is needed apply 400 pounds per acre of a mixture of one-third acid phosphate, two-thirds cottonseed meal. In the latitude of Memphis and Little Rock planting may bfe made the middle of July and in Central Mississippi the mid dle of August. Cultivation—Cultivate once a week from the time the po tatoes are planted, gradually filling the furrow in which the seed was planted. Leave the field level at the last cultivation. .. - „,rnm t, ; .:.. .1<L--- - - - - --^ CLOSE ELECTIONSJ Many Great Events Decided by a Narrow Margin. HISTORY MADE BY ONE VOTE. In Several Instances In the Life of Our Nation, Notably In the Hayes-Tilden Presidential Contest, a Single Ballot Turned the Scales. There have been many close elections In the cities, counties and states of this great nation, as well as in the nation at large itself. In the latter class the Tildeu-Hayes contest was the most sensational. In that memorable elec flnn fhn rnctilt f 11 i’im/1 nr\An fl,., ^J_ ------ -V* OiUfelV vote of the fifteenth member of the electoral commission, who was chosen by four judges of the supreme court. Our history abounds with instances In which the course of events has turn ed upon single votes, and some of them may be conveniently selected from the compilation made by Speaker Clark for one of his Chautauqua lec tures. General Jackson was elected major general of Tennessee militia by one majority. Without that one vote he could not have fought the battle of New Orleans, and politics would have been different for a quarter of a cen tury. Martin Van Buren won the presi dency through his defeat by one vote on the confirmation of his nomination as minister to England. John C. Calhoun, as vice president, cast the deciding vote which gave to Van Buren what Calhoun never got for himself, although his claims were not inferior. Edward Everett lost the governor ship of Massachusetts by one vote, and that took him out of the list of avail ables for the presidency. Thomas H. Benton was elected to the senate by a single vote. The loss of that one vote not only would have cost him his career of thirty years, but would have meant the loss to the senate of one of its strongest and most famous members in a most trying era. One of the great characters of Ameri can history might never have emerged from obscurity. Henry Clay cast the deciding vote in the constitutional convention which admitted Kentucky to the Union as a slave state. If Kentucky had entered the Union as a free state it is hardly doubtful that Missouri would have done the same, and it is conceivable that there might have been no Mis souri compromise, and perhaps even no war between the states. The Walker tariff passed the senate by a single vote. Taft lost the vote of Idaho through a tie in the precinct of D/lin/i TP _A P~~ A*. V/i V. LUUU Ul*vi « vvvvt Taft Roosevelt would have lost con trol of the state. There is at least one case in which a single vote was the entire election. At the primaries for the Prohibition nomi nation for judge in Schuylkill county, Pa., one vote was cast. There being no other candidate or voter, Richard H. Koch was unanimously chosen. A miss is said to be as good as a mile, and under some conditions one vote is as good as a million. On the other hand, a majority of 100,000 may be worthless, as was ac tually the case in Indiana. At the gen eral election in November, 1900, a pro posed amendment that “the general as sembly shall by law prescribe what qualifications shall be necessary for admission to practice law to all courts of Justice” was submitted to the elec tors. Nearly 100.000 more votes were cast for the amendment than against it. But it did not receive a majority of the votes cast for presidential electors and governor. The supreme court held that it had not been carried by the con stitutional majority required for the ratification of a proposed amendment. That was a case where an actual ma jority at the polls lost In the courts. There would be no end to the prece dents regarding the value of a few votes if the search were extended to foreign history. One example will suf fice to show that the count of the votes is as important as the casting of them. In 1911 the Monis ministry fell in France because it was thought to be in a minority of fourteen, when in fact it had a majority of five. According to the contemporary cablegram: The crisis arose over an interpellation regarding the attitude of the government aa to the chief command of the army in the event of war, and the official list showed 238 votes against the government and 224 in favor. M. Monls was still on a sick bed as the result of an accident and his colleagues decided on resignation. The curious fact has now been brought to light, however, that at the moment of the fateful division there was consider able confusion in regard to the votes for and against A number of deputies announced that their names had appeared on the wrong division list. An official rectification was made, with the result that so far from having been defeated the government had the narrow majority mentioned above. Though this discovery may be the source of much personal satisfaction te the ex-premler, it is, of course, too late to affect the fate of his ministry. These are cases merely of misadven ture in the working of the machinery of voting. The cases of malicious falsi fying of popular sentiment are too nu merous to record.—New York Times. Cause Not Cure. Wayward Son—But, dad, you should make allowance for the follies of youth. Father—Huh I If it wasn’t for the al lowance you get there’d be less folly.—• Boston Transcript Before employing a fine word Had a place for it—Joubet . j ••—-W-—-— ,■ ■■■ , T"—11 iii ,11 nm. ■■ - - AT I REED’S The Real Cash I We want to help make this a profitable day for you. That’s why these Special Values: ——W—————I— I — —M——M—■——————M————— 1,000 yards Dress Ginghams, 15c value, per yard . . IOC 500 yards 10c Fancy Lawns at per yard . . • 7C 500 yards Fancy Voiles, 25c values, at per yard . . . 13c 100 $1.25 Middy Blouses at each .... 95C 100 $ 1.00 Middy Blouses at each .... 79C 100 59c Middy Blouses at each .... 40C 100 $1.50 Gingham Dresses and Coat Suits, each . . $1.15 All Silk Dresses and Coat Suits at | Half Price t 500 pair Men’s $1.25 Wash Pants, per pair - - 85C l 300 Men’s $1 Union Suits, each ' 81C 300 Men’s 75c Work Shirts, each 49C | 300 $1.50 Fancy Dress Shirts, each - - ■ $1.15 ? 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